Access WIndows XP files from Linux
 

I have several Windows XP PCs and last year I set up a Linux system. On the Linux system, I want to be able to access my Windows XP files over the network. With Windows Explorer, the windows XP system displays my Linux computer. On the Linux system, I can see all of my Windows XP computers. Earlier this morning I was able to copy a few files from one of the XP systems to my Linux system. But when I tried again this afternoon, all I get is "The folder contents could not be displayed." Does Microsoft have some one-time flag that won't let Linux access its files? Is there something I am missing? Thanks for any help.

The program you are most likely using to access those drives is samba. There are a few gui's available to help you manage those drives. Here is a link that describes a few of them.

http://de.samba.org/samba/GUI/

If you want to go old school and do it all on the command line, this page will help....

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...docs/SMB-HOWTO

Good luck, let us know how it worked out.....

David

Thanks. I am using Samba. I will check out that sight.

But this morning, without changing anything, I am able to see and copy files to my Linux system.

Tony-37